“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] In some, the inner self is aware of having more than one ego, of playing more than one role at a time. [...] You would be aware of each role and find abilities being developed in each. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Identities take many roles in many lives.

If you are having a dream as yourself from your own perspective, another reincarnational self may be having the same dream from its perspective—in which, of course, you play a minor role. [...]

[...] With this came a greater diversity in individual characteristics and behavior, so that no individual was bound to a strictly biological role. [...]

[...] The question was really based upon our belief, indeed our certainty, that everything in nature is intentional and useful; therefore dreams must fulfill important roles in people’s lives — but how, in ordinary terms? [...]

[...] But once it’s largely self-sufficient, the United States could really begin to fulfill its role of leadership in the world.

[...] The very deep love that you have for each other, my dear friends, is in the overall a bisexual love, for you have known each other many times, and in different sex roles.

[...] Often, particularly in the case of mental or physical birth defects, the incapacitated person will be accepting that role not only because of personal reasons; he or she will also be choosing that part for the family as a whole.

[...] The idea had come to me some days ago that Jane’s foot troubles were directly related to her fears of being accepted in a controversial role. [...]

In connection with material in this note, I think it quite interesting and revealing that several millennia before Darwin, man himself began playing the role of a designer within the framework of nature, through his selective breeding of animals and his hybridization of plants. [...] I have yet to see in those accounts anything about the role consciousness will play in this truly miraculous conversion of dead matter into that of the living. [...]

(Any role that consciousness might play in such biochemical processes isn’t considered, of course, nor is there any sort of mystical comprehension of what we’re up to as creatures. [...]

[...] Seth hasn’t said so yet, but I think such contradictions play an important negative role in present world conditions. [...]

In Note 7 (also see Note 5), I wrote that for centuries now — most of them obviously preceding Darwin — man himself has been playing the role of a designer through his creation of certain breeds of animals and hybrid plants. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Identities take many roles in many lives.

[...] For the personality, true to the roles of action, will seize upon the new action and form of it new realities and unities with itself.

[...] They try out the roles of other family members, imagine themselves rich and poor, old and young, male and female.

(There is also some factual connection in the displacement, since by using the pendulum recently we have learned of the rather important role Blanche played in some of Jane’s earlier associations; due to a complicated variety of events Jane has been bothered lately by some physical symptoms we are in the process of eliminating. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) He will be reborn, and his abilities of inventiveness will play a large role in the 21st Century, where he shall be born in Egypt. [...]

(To Arnold) And you have closed your mind to your own role, but we will get to it as far as our African god is concerned. [...]

(I did dwell upon the fact that Seth—and Jane—have yet to go into the main question I’ve asked several times since she came home from the hospital: the current attitude and role of her sinful self. [...]

And in all of this, as always, Seth stresses probabilities as playing a vital role in the development of the individual and the species, and as representing the basis for free will. [...]

You “were” right, then, when you worked on the book before your bout, and during that time you trusted yourself—but then your ideas of the comparative nature of your ideas intruded, triggered at that time by (news of) Crowder’s death, and the ensuing beliefs about the male role in society, and as that applied to your own talents. [...]

(On July 3 and July 5th, I held long pendulum sessions, trying to learn what subconscious role I have been playing in Jane’s symptoms. [...]